This document provides a proposal for a case study paper on the Ningbo Museum in China. The paper will examine the museum's use of sustainable materials salvaged from demolished villages, as well as its integration of vernacular construction methods and spatial planning strategies. This contributes to the museum's green architecture approach and strengthens cultural values in Ningbo city. The proposal lists five research questions and provides an annotated bibliography of three sources to support the topic of sustainability in architecture within an urban context.

1. Asian Architecture (ARC60403/ARC2234) Project 1: Case Study Paper
Topic & Issue Proposal
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Name: Lim Jern Jack
ID No.: 0317139
Tutor: Shahrianne Mohd Shah
The Integration of Sustainable Materials and Spatial Planning
Strategies in Ningbo Museum based on the Traditional
Chinese Architecture leading towards Green Architecture
Research Questions:
1. What defines green architecture in China?
2. What is contextual and vernacular architecture? And how it applied in
Ningbo Museum?
3. What is the importance of using sustainable materials to signify the
museum in the contextual architecture?
4. How the Chinese vernacular construction method enhances the building
structure of the museum?

2. 5. The spatial planning strategies in Ningbo Museum play a vital role to
shape its identity. How does this contribute in creating and strengthening
the cultural values of Ningbo city?
Green
Architecture
Ningbo
Museum
Issue:
Sustainability
Salvaged
Materials
Spatial
Planning
Strategies
Vernacular
Construction
Method

3. Summary of the topic:
Today, the modern Chinese architecture has lost certain connectivity with the
traditional Chinese architecture in terms of history, sense of time and memory,
and materiality. The rapid development of Chinese cities has caused tremendous
environmental impacts mainly due to the negligence towards the prominence of
contextual and vernacular architecture.
To study on this subject, I have selected Ningbo Museum by Wang Shu,
addressing the issue of green architecture in China, emphasising the importance
of using sustainable materials to contribute in preventing further exacerbation of
the built environment. What makes the materials sustainable is owing to the
salvaged materials, which are entirely collected from the demolished villages in
the city from different eras as a reflection towards the phenomenon of
deconstruction and massive construction in the urbanisation process in China. In
addition, promoting the integration of the vernacular construction method and
traditional spatial planning strategies enriches the implementation of building
sustainable and fusion between ecology and culture.
Thus, this paper will focus on the sustainability of the museum in an urban
context, acting as a landmark as well as a community to intensify the connectivity
between human and architecture in the region. A more in-depth analysis will
capture the tangible and intangible essence of congruity between human and
place by weaving the humanity, tradition and memory through architecture.
Annotated Bibliography

4. Frampton, K. (2014). Wang Shu: Amateur Attitude. Prestel Pub.
This book presents Wang Shu's architecture reveals instead a thoughtful attitude
toward both design and implementation, as well as the ability to react flexibly to
the context of a particular site - something he characterizes as an "Amateur
Attitude."
Guo, Q. (2005). Chinese architecture and planning: Ideas, methods, techniques.
Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges.
This book presents a thematic discussion of architectural history and a critical
evaluation of city planning, with a focus on the issues of methods and techniques
in the context of the culture, politics and religion of the pre-modern China.
Yang, W., & Chang, C. (n.d.). Green architecture.
The book presents the latest green architecture in China, showing the Chinese
architects' understanding and exploration of contemporary green architecture.